A famous singer, Bob Marley, sang a song about rights but at the same time in India females are the minority. “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!” Lakshmi's mother, Ama, was telling her all about the roles of being a woman after she got her ‘first blood’. “I ask Ama, ‘Why’, I say, ‘Why must women suffer so?’ ‘This has always been our fate’ she says. ‘Simply to endure’ she says, ‘is to triumph.’” (McCormick 16) Earlier in the book it shows that women aren't treated as well as men when the author states “But not worth crying over when it's time to make stew.”(McCormick 8) She was comparing women to a lamb saying that women are only useful when you need them but are easily replaceable. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick was successful in her purpose of explaining to an an American teenage audience how and why the cycle of human slavery present in the brothels exist. As discussed in the introduction, the act of sex slavery amongst children is common but as teens read this book it informed them as to how the cycle continues. Through the reading of this book many teens gain knowledge but the bigger question is, how can teens educate society to make a
A famous singer, Bob Marley, sang a song about rights but at the same time in India females are the minority. “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!” Lakshmi's mother, Ama, was telling her all about the roles of being a woman after she got her ‘first blood’. “I ask Ama, ‘Why’, I say, ‘Why must women suffer so?’ ‘This has always been our fate’ she says. ‘Simply to endure’ she says, ‘is to triumph.’” (McCormick 16) Earlier in the book it shows that women aren't treated as well as men when the author states “But not worth crying over when it's time to make stew.”(McCormick 8) She was comparing women to a lamb saying that women are only useful when you need them but are easily replaceable. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick was successful in her purpose of explaining to an an American teenage audience how and why the cycle of human slavery present in the brothels exist. As discussed in the introduction, the act of sex slavery amongst children is common but as teens read this book it informed them as to how the cycle continues. Through the reading of this book many teens gain knowledge but the bigger question is, how can teens educate society to make a